The Relationship between Design & Technology

John Mattick

1988,Vol. 20,No. 2,

Abstract

In the last few months, as I have been visiting schools, which is one of the privileges of this particular occupation, people have been voicing their anxieties about what they perceive as a potential snare facing them. It is that in some senses they could envisage CDT in the future dissolving into three:

technological activity, design activity, and craft - something separate again. I would like to discuss that, and also speak about two other important issues. One is to offer some, I hope, provocative thoughts about the issue of progression in our subject; the other is to make a few remarks about technological language. I hope, in the plenary that follows, there will be an opportunity for you to challenge these things as some of them will be rather tentative.